Netherlands: Culture or cannons? The Van Gogh Museum’s survival at stake

The future of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum—home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of works by the Dutch master Vincent van Gogh—now hangs precariously in the balance. The Dutch government’s plans to slash annual funding for arts and culture threaten one of humanity’s most vital cultural institutions.

Eddington: Lost in the desert

A filmmaker seeking to dramatize the explosive political climate in 2020 would be faced with significant artistic challenges, but also major opportunities.

Artificial Intelligence in the entertainment industry and the necessary socialist response

A report issued in January 2024 suggested that in the next three years alone some 204,000 “creative jobs” would be “adversely affected in the United States” by artificial intelligence.

CBS cancels The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Corporate mergers, political pressure and economic decline are reshaping American media.

One Battle After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson’s drama of rebellion and repression

Whatever the weaknesses and confused or poorly developed elements, Anderson deserves full credit for making an appalled and outspoken film

“What the hell do we get out of this war, anyway?”

King Vidor’s World War I film The Big Parade at 100

With its soldier's eye view, realistic depiction of battle and rejection of national chauvinism, the film departed significantly from previous treatments of the imperialist slaughter.

Strike threat at Venice’s La Fenice opera company over new conductor linked to neo-fascist Meloni government

The musicians and audience are outraged over the appointment, which has an unmistakable political motive.

Attempted prosecution of Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh collapses

Chief magistrate Goldspring’s excoriating judgement could only come about because of the Starmer government’s attempt to ride roughshod over basic democratic norms.

Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: Working class families sliding gradually or dropping suddenly into homelessness

Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.

Mario Kessler's Socialists against Antisemitism and Leon Trotsky on Antisemitism

The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism

Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.

Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage denounces Israeli genocide in Gaza

“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”

Roger Stahl discusses Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood with WSWS

Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to “get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life.”